"I love the idea of fruit trees that are mobile," he said.
I've tried to convert him to the idea of fruit in condiments, but he's having none of it!
Some city officials like the idea of fruit trees — former Mayor Harold Washington was "very interested" in planting them on parkways, said Edith Malka of the Morton Arboretum.
Or, put another way, you have to engage them in the idea that fruit is not just something that takes upa quarter of the food plate (formerly known as the food pyramid), right there next to the vegetables.
Mark Terry, the winemaker at Castello di Borghese, in Cutchogue (the former Hargrave Vineyard) exactly catches the spirit of the novello idea: vivacious fruit, near-sweetness, bounce and, especially, frivolity.
Taub then came across the idea for "fruit leather" after finding a reference from the historian Dorothy Hartley to a recipe dating from 1700 for quince comfits – the equivalent of fruit pastilles – which require a mixture as "stiff as candied fruit leather".
Once the idea for Fruit Ninja was born, it only took a few months to make, but some game ideas, the team told me, have been floating around for years and have yet to become reality.
But if the crisis lifts and Angela Merkel's "more Europe" ideas bear fruit, monetary unions could well come back into fashion.
Based on extremely dubious experiments - Lysenko was no scientist - he developed a theory around the neo-Lamarckian ideas of fruit tree hybridiser Ivan Michurin.
Through the Climathon, participating teams have been able to make connections with government and business within their own cities, which may be instrumental in ensuring their ideas bear fruit.
